I've got to do some dialogue editing, and the client wants all breath sounds completely removing. Seems a bit unnatural like that to me, but hey, the customer is always right.
 
Anyway, it's quick enough to go through and visually spot the breaths and chop them out, but this can easily leave short clicks at the edges of the cuts. Is there a way to get sonar to automatically add clip fades around the edges of deletions?

Man do I wish that could be done.
 
Maybe it can and I'm just not smart enough to find it.
 
scook should be along soon to tells us.

John T
Anyway, it's quick enough to go through and visually spot the breaths and chop them out, but this can easily leave short clicks at the edges of the cuts. Is there a way to get sonar to automatically add clip fades around the edges of deletions?

Chop the breathing out ... CTRL+A to select all clips ... zoom in a LOT ... and fade in at beginning and out at end just a tiny little bit (which should add the same fade to every selected clip) ... should do the trick if you didn't chop too close earlier ... do a listening test
 
should be much faster than editing each clip

FreeFlyBertl

John T
Anyway, it's quick enough to go through and visually spot the breaths and chop them out, but this can easily leave short clicks at the edges of the cuts. Is there a way to get sonar to automatically add clip fades around the edges of deletions?

Chop the breathing out ... CTRL+A to select all clips ... zoom in a LOT ... and fade in at beginning and out at end just a tiny little bit which should add the same fade to every clip) ... should do the trick if you didn't chop too close earlier ... do a listening test
 
should be much faster than editing each clip

Excellent. Very Creative. I'm gonna use this again and again.

Ah, excellent idea.

You could try "Remove Silence".
 
Take a copy of the clips first. Experiment with the settings.

Another option is to dupe the file as two separate takes in the same track... Then you could comp these takes with the crossfade built in (don't promote the breaths of course).

The sneaky solution is to use AudioSnap with the track's edit filter set to Audio Transients. Set the AS Threshold to 100 so there are no transients, then add transient markers (Alt+click) where you want to separate words. Then choose Split Beat into Clips, but before doing so, go into Preferences for AudioSnap and set a time for Auto Fade Split Clips. Delete the clips that don't have audio...done.

why NOT use a gate? Isnt That easier/quicker?

rezab
why NOT use a gate? Isnt That easier/quicker?

Not if one or more of the breaths is louder than the words.
 
FreeFlyBertl's idea is an excellent one.  Simple, and so obvious, if only I had thought of it..